Windows XP is almost 25 years old, but in some ways, it's still cooler than Windows 11. Here are a few things I wish would come back.

Ironically, Microsoft bought the app to replace its own first-party communication client at the time, Windows Live Messenger (which itself had grown out of the old MSN Messenger).

Chat messaging platform MSN was first released in 1999 and was rebranded as Windows Live Messenger in 2005. Related stories Though it was used by hundreds of millions of people each month ...

In the 90s and 2000s, MSN was also the brand used for many of Microsoft’s consumer internet products, including MSN Messenger (later Windows Live Messenger), MSN Hotmail (later Windows Live Hotmail ...

Windows 12 is likely to be the next major update to Windows 11 — with an even bigger push of Copilot to boot. Microsoft announced a bunch of Copilot+ PCs with Windows 11 in May 2024, which ...

Many have long wanted to revisit the old days of MSN and Windows Live Messenger, and a new third-party Discord app does just that. When Aerochat starts up, it offers your DMs, friends list, and ...

Microsoft is an old (in tech terms, at least) company - and a very successful one at that, but not every product it makes is a success. For every Windows 7, there's a Games for Windows Live. Every ...

To say that I spent a lot of my teens on MSN Messenger would be an understatement. I spent countless evenings after school chatting to friends throughout the evening and into the night via MSN ...

As this was before social media was even a thing (well, MySpace was trying), MSN Messenger was a big ... with a different name in 2006 with ‘Windows Live Messenger’, alongside a new look.

One of the first instant messengers, legendary MSN Messenger had great success over the 14 years of its existence. It was created in 1999, then converted to Windows Live Messenger and existed until ...